[LINK] Diebold e-voting software includes delete audit logs button

[Brendan Scott]

Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> <brd>
> One of our favourite subjects - e-voting
> 
> I wonder if Diebold's system developers are typical of USA developers in 
> general.
> 
> </brd>
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> Diebold e-voting software includes delete audit logs button
> No confirmation necessary
> By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
> 5th March 2009 00:09 GMT
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/05/diebold_delete_button/


> Under guidelines established by the Federal Election Commission in 1990, 
> tabulation software used in all US elections must automatically create 
> and permanently retain electronic audit logs of important system events 
> while tallying votes. The guidelines state they are intended to provide 
> a "concrete, indestructible archival record of all system activity" and 

They are obviously compliant - at least for appropriate definitions of "concrete" and "indestructible"